Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (The Impossible, 21 Grams) has signed on to star in Netflix’s Gypsy. Gypsy is described as a psychological thriller and Watts will take on the lead role in the 10 one-hour episodes that will make up season one. Per the network’s official announcement, Gypsy will premiere in 2017.
The original series comes from executive producers Liza Chasin (The Theory of Everything) and Lisa Rubin (I Was Here). Rubin is also writing the series which is produced by Universal Television and Working Title. Watts, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Andrew Stearn are on board as executive producers, with Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Sam Taylor-Johnson directing episodes one and two.
Gypsy will follow Jean Holloway, played by Watts. Holloway is a “therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives.”
Watts can currently be seen in the dramatic film Demolition opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. She also recently finished work on The Book of Henry with Sarah Silverman and Room‘s Jacob Tremblay, and is now shooting the new Twin Peaks series. Watts is also committed to starring in The Glass Castle for Short Term 12 filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton. Cretton’s reuniting with his Short Term 12 star Brie Larson for the dramatic film based on Jeannette Walls’ memoir.
